Heating with coal

[jinjimbob]

I sometimes burn coal that I find in my yard, burns well.

 

[ToadHill]

I can hear my mother just like it was yesterday " I don't want you boys playing in the coal bin!"

 

[PAGUY]

[It is not available here but for the information and amazement of readers, how much does this 6-7 tons cost you folks for the year's heat?]

I live in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania and use 3 ton of rice coal for the winter. This is supplemented by my hot water radiators from gas furnace at 58ｰ day 52ｰ night. The hot air coal stoker stove is set at 72ｰ all the time.

I pay $179 a ton delivered.

 

[Sigarms]

live in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania and use 3 ton of rice coal for the winter.

When my father spent numerous stints overseas, grew up as a child in Saint Clair. Both gradfathers died in the coal mines (guess it didn't make the newspapers back then), and I still remember the coal truck stoping at the house to "drop off" coal straight from the truck to the basement through the basement window into the "coal room" across from the coal furnace.

Do kids still get coal in their stocking if they're "bad" for Christmas?

Hate to say this, but coal is going the same route as oil for heating (in another 100 years).

This is supplemented by my hot water radiators from gas furnace at 58ï½° day 52ï½° night.

Gas furnace or gas boiler?